What is communication?
The mutual exchange of information, ideas, and understanding through verbal or nonverbal means.
Communication definition
Mutual exchange of ideas and understanding.
What does communication enable humans to express?
Thoughts, feelings, aspirations, doubts, questions, and fears.
Elements of communication
Sender, medium, channel, receiver, feedback.
What does the sender or encoder do in communication?
They conceptualize the message and choose the most effective transmission form.
Communication principles
Interpretative, ethical, symbolic, context-dependent.
How is communication characterized in terms of its nature?
It is dynamic, continuous, irreversible, and contextual with interdependent elements.
Verbal language
Uses words, sentences, grammar to convey meaning.
Nonverbal communication
Uses gestures, facial expressions, body language.
Communication flow
Sender → medium → channel → receiver → feedback.
Principle of schemata-driven communication
Starts with pre-existing knowledge in the mind.
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1. Which description best defines communication?
2. What is the primary purpose of communication?
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